What Does Grace Look Like to Someone Else?

          This is my 500th entry on this blog so I hope I make it sound like that. I had two more that I had to chose from but hopefully I can get those done this week sometime. The title and this entry is important to me because it shows that I am growing in Faith and in Love with my Heavenly Daddy everyday. I have been put in situations recently that has shown me a lot about what Grace really it and how other people actually see it. I know I just wrote about what a leader really is in my last entry but I feel like God is wanting me to be that leader in what I do now.
         Anyways, that whole other leader talk will have to wait for another entry too. I am here to answer "What does Grace look like to someone else outside of the Christian world?" The situation even made me love the verse about Grace even more then I did before and this verse is what I thought of when I was in the situation.
     
        "But He said to me, "My Grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made prefect in your weakness."- 2 Corinthians 12:9

         It is strange how someone else can really see your weakness and even good enough to call them out to and for you. It is even stranger when they get every single one right on the dot. That as a Christian, should give us hope in a way. It shows or should show that we are doing something right. When other people can see our weaknesses yet ask questions about how we live they see something but they are no quite sure what yet or why. I had a person that I talk to everyday point out my weaknesses and usually that makes me upset but this time it really made me think about this verse.
          The person pointed out that (my weaknesses) I am or was:
                         -not free
                         -insecure about myself
                         -feels lonely at times
                         -a nerd in high school
                         -have a heart.
        To that person, I have 5 weaknesses but I know, myself, I could add on more because none of us are prefect. Now some of you might say that not all of these are weaknesses but they all are even having a heart one. That one can get the best of me at times because I usually care and have compassion more then I need to at certain times. I don't let go very easily at all. Then the one about being a nerd in high school still gets to me at times because that is when I turn shy or don't do something that I need to do because I might get embarrassed.
       It was just neat for me to see that someone else saw them in me and as Christians that is what we want people to see because we all make mistakes. Because of those 5+ weaknesses people can see Christ through me. I know I can't handle everyday especially with children, even though that is my passion, if I felt like this all the time. There has to be joy and security and peace within me and for me to do my job and live everyday even so that is why I try to trust God with everything and try to live for Him everyday. Let's not forget a lot of patience too. God replaces the bad things with the good things.
       All this to say that we need to let people see our weaknesses and some people will and even call us out on them but what better way to see the Lord working then to hear and see it that way. That should give us some joy everyday and a reason to live and trust Him every day of our lives. When God covers those things up and gives us the other things, that is called Grace, and that is what people need to see in this world today. God replaces the bad with the Good. That is every Christian's story in one form or another. That is what Grace can look like to someone else.